Kerry to Meet with Palestinian Officials Amid Push for UN Vote

December 16, 2014 7:30 AM

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets Tuesday with chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat ahead of the likely introduction of a draft U.N. Security Council resolution that would set a deadline for Israel's withdrawal from Palestinian territories.

The talks in London follow Kerry's multi-stop effort Monday to assess the situation, which included talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Rome and the foreign ministers of France, Britain and Germany in Paris.

Agreed. If President Obama tries to sell Israel down the river the way Britain sold Czechoslovakia out he will not prevent a war but start one instead. He will get exactly the opposite of what he thinks he wants. Even I will start referring to him as President Osama. I would also support a Republican effort for impeachment. He has not been nearly assertive enough in defending us and some of the terrorist attacks were prevented only by sheer luck such as the one in New York City, the one in Detroit, and the shoe bomber. So he sent a Soap Opera woman to be our ambassador to Hungary that's on the cusp of a fascist dictatorship getting into bed with Russia because she was a major campaign contributor. What are we coming to?

Netanyahu has said that he’s going to oppose the idea of statehood for PLO. Perhaps it’s good if even USA goes along with the rest of its European/islamist allies to support statehood for the Palestinians, but the problem of that is that perhaps the whole of Europe has resolved to return the trouble to its roots which it had been dispersed by colonial ambitions/quest for dominance. Perhaps that’ll enable Israel parley with exclusively its true friends. But no matter what happens, terrorism has defined itself, mission, and origin in Islamic desire to dominate, and the earlier the world understands it and do the right things in total isolation of trouble areas, the better. It can only start with ensuring that Israel isn’t entrapped inside such a destructive bargain the present map of Israel-Palestine portrays. Otherwise let the region be left to sort itself out, perhaps engage in a winner-takes-it-all war as ISIS is presently prosecuting, and let the outcome determine new boundaries. Israel cannot live in the delusion of belonging to a civilized world while its allies sacrifice it to terrorism on the altar of marriage with Islam -a picture of the beast that will devour civilization when it matures.

What new insanity do we have here? A bunch of blowhard windbags at the UN trying to force a small nation surrounded by enemies to retreat to undefendable borders that enticed 3 of the 4 wars to destroy it militarily, to force it to accept 5 million hostile refugees and their descendants to destroy it demographically, to force it to cede its most important religious site which was denied to it when Arabs controlled it, and an entity which elected a terrorist organization as its government that also vows to destroy it. What does Israel have in its favor? The fifth most powerful military in the world. A united will to do whatever it takes to survive, billions of dollars every year of American weapons of every kind, the absolute support of most of the American population the American government, and the American military, and if what most suspect is true an arsenal of hundreds of thermonuclear weapons. This arsenal if it exists can not only kill every person within thousands of miles of Israel on very short notice, it can make the surface of the earth uninhabitable for all human life. Does it also have the means to deliver those weapons to the capital cities of any nation that votes for this vindictive resolution? I'll just bet it does. President Obama, if you have even one ounce of brains in your head, you will veto this insanity at the unUnited Nations and make it clear it will never see the light of day. Will the Palestinians ever get a state of their own? Not until enough generations are behind it that it understands and accepts that its hatred that has been destroying it are a the result of being fed a steady diet of a tapestry of lies about Jews and Israel. President Obama, stop playing this game. We are not safe here from the radioactive fallout and smoke from the endless conflagration of the Mideast oil fields that will result if Israel feels its existence is threatened. Promises by American administrations to protect allies in the past have often proved empty and unreliable. Israel can only be certain of itself. If it goes down, there is every possibility it will take the rest of humanity down with it. That includes us here half a world away.